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Since Henry Ford Sr., Will Rogers and Heywood Campbell Broun appeared in its inaugural pages in the May 16, 1927, issue of TIME, the People section has consistently been one of the magazine's best-read features. "Celebrities are both role models and instant icons," says Staff Writer Guy D. Garcia, who has written the People page since 1983. "When it comes to the glitterati, I guess folks haven't changed much." As many readers will have noticed, People has a lively new look these days. The section now features a special "strip," designed by Assistant Art Director Billy Powers...
...problem came to the fore again last week in Biloxi, Miss., for 665 delegates to the national assembly of the 3 million-member Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The Israel issue led to a dispute that stirred passions over six days before the assembly finally approved an eight-page statement. The document is probably the most amicable declaration any U.S. denomination has yet issued on Jewish-Christian relations...
...anything else; only nihilism and music." Compared with the allusive qualities of the book, such statements can seem as obvious as a Goodyear blimp. But they cannot overshadow Dickey's talent for mating small details, his audacious lyric power and technical risks. At times he splits the page into two columns, the left registering the impressions of Cahill, the right a simultaneous visual sighting of events...
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger tried to mollify Congress with a 26- page report explaining the Navy's new rules of engagement in the gulf. Warships are now operating under "hair-trigger" alert, prepared to fire on any plane or vessel that approaches in a hostile manner. Under these rules, the Iraqi jet that zeroed in on the Stark would have been blown out of the sky before it could launch its missiles. He assured worried Congressmen that the threat to U.S. vessels was, as the report put it, "low to moderate...
MIXED-UP GOVERNMENT. The power structure of megacounties is a kind of elective feudalism: a series of petty neighboring baronies lacking the authority and, frequently, the will to police development. "Essentially, we're a city without municipal governance," complains Jack Knuepfer, chairman of the Du Page County board. "We're a city with 35 municipalities, nine townships and only the Lord knows how many special districts: fire districts, sanitary districts, school districts." The county government has been unable to prevent its component communities from following what Knuepfer describes as a "beggar thy neighbor" policy...